This program utilizes qualified non-profit youth- and veteran-serving organizations to carry out appropriate natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service and education…

The Student Conservation Association, Inc. (SCA) received a $100,788.01 cooperative agreement from the National Park Service (NPS), Department of the Interior, under the Youth and Veteran Organizations Conservation Activities program (CFDA 15.931), awarded on August 18, 2025, with completion targeted for December 31, 2026. Under this agreement, SCA will hire and deploy interns to support the NPS Office of Health and Safety in advancing public safety and visitor health priorities across the National Park System. The interns will analyze disease and injury data from multiple sources to identify trends, contributing factors, and high-risk populations; develop data dashboards and analytical outputs; and create actionable safety and health content for distribution across NPS.gov, social media platforms, and internal staff resources.

In addition to data analysis and insights generation, SCA's interns will develop and update safety and health communications products designed to improve visitor safety and prevent injuries while also supporting employee wellness and safety initiatives. All deliverables will be coordinated with NPS communications and subject matter experts, with particular attention to ensuring accessibility compliance across all communications products. This award leverages SCA's established capacity as the nation's largest provider of youth conservation and service programs to address critical NPS health and safety objectives while providing meaningful career development and professional training opportunities for participating interns.

This program utilizes qualified non-profit youth- and veteran-serving organizations to carry out appropriate natural and cultural resource conservation, education, volunteer service and education projects on department of the interior lands through authorized national park service programs. This project will hire interns who will support the NPS office of health and safety with public safety priorities, including analyzing various data sources to identify disease and injury trends in national parks understanding causal and contributing factors to diseases and injuries, high risk populations, and location specific information to target and improve visitor safety and health efforts creating dashboards and other data analysis outputs developing and updating relevant and engaging safety and health content on NPS.GOV, NPS social media, and insidenps, in coordination with communications staff and other subject matter experts updating existing content on insidenps to provide park staff with policy, guidance, tools, and resources targeted at employee safety and wellness and visitor injury prevention developing new content to support program initiatives related to employee safety, disease and visitor injury prevention and ensuring that all communications products meet accessibility requirements. Beneficiaries include private non-profit institutions and organizations public and private non-profit academic institutions state and local government agencies quasi-public non-profit institutions and organizations that support youth and young adult career training and development, and education in the areas of natural and or cultural resource conservation and management. Individuals families students and the general public will receive a benefitfrom the development and execution of these programs and projects.